Pressure oil can



March 8, 1927. 1,620,595

F. M. DILLEY ET AL PRESSURE OIL can FiledvApril 15, 1925 iatentecl Mar. 8, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

FRED M. DILLEY AND CLAY F. HALILBERG, 0F OELWEIN, IOWA.

PRESSURE OIL CAN.

Application filed April 15, 1825.

This invention relates to improvements in oil cans and has for its object to provide an oil can into which air may be pumped to put the oil can under pressure. The air pump is connected to the oil can proper in such a manner that it forms a handle for the oil can. The spout for the oil can is controlled by valve-operating means at the top of the oil can in such proximity to the handle of the same, namely the air pump, that it may be readily manipulated by the hand holding the oil can.

The various features of novelty and invention will appear in the detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in forming a part of the specification.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section in the improved oil can, and

Fig. 2 is a plan view of same.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the oil container which has a removable cap 2 in the top thereof. 8 indicates the spout of the oil can and as shown extends from the top of the container to a point adjacent the bottom thereof. The bottom of the spout is closed by valve 4 mounted on the lever 5, which is pivoted at 6 to a bracket 7 aflixed to the spout 3. A spring 8 is secured to the spout at 9 and to the lever 5 at 10 and tends to keep the valve closed in the spout. A rod 11 is connected in any suitable manner as at12 to the lever and extends upwardly through the container through a suitable sleeve 13. A push lever 14 is pivoted at the top of the container as at 15 and overlies the projecting end of the rod 11. When the push lever 14 is depressed the valve 4 will be opened to permit oil to pass out through the spout.

The pump for supplying air to the container is indicated at 16 and is secured to the container as by means of brackets 17 and 18, said brackets spacing the pump suffi- Serial No. 23,313.

ciently far from the container to permit the pump body to be held in the hand. The stem of the plunger within the pump is shown at 19 and the same is provided with a button 20 which will be grasped by the operator in pumping air into the container. From the bottom of the pump extends a pipe 21 which passes into the container near the bottom thereof and then extends upwardly as at 22 to a point near the top of the container.

It will now be seen that there is provided an oil can having an air pump attached to the same in such a manner that the body of the pump will form the handle of the oil can. Also that the push lever 14 is so'dis- 6O posed with respect to the air pump that it may be readily operated by the thumb of thehand which is holding the oil can by the pump. The arrangement is extremely simple and provides an oil can from which the oil may be forced under pressure, in the places which could not very well be reached by the ordinary oil can.

What we claim is:

An oil can comprising a closed container, a discharge pipe projecting into the container through the top thereof, to a point adjacent the bottom, an air pump secured vertically and exteriorly upon and in spaced relation to the container and adapted to serve as a handle therefor, an air pipe leading from the bottom of the pump toward the bottom of the container and therefrom to a point adjacent the top thereof, a spring controlled valve on the inner end of said discharge pipe and normally closing said end, a lever pivoted at one end to the top of the container and extending toward the pump, and means operatively connectingsaid valve to said lever intermediate its said ends to control the operation of said valve.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

FRED M. DILLEY. CLAY F. HALLBERG. 

